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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/KOR/370 
3 September 2010 
 (10-4555) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Korea Food and Drug Administration 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Food additives 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:  Proposed amendments to the Standards and Specifications 
for Food Additives  Language:  Korean  Number of pages:  50 
6. Description of content:   
The proposed regulation revises the "General  Standards for Food Additives" and the 
Standards for the use of 33 food additives.  
(1) The list of food additives used in infant formula and follow-on formula are 
reclassified.  
(2) The Standards for the use of followi ng 33 food additives  are revised: 
 Sodium selenite, ammonium molybdate, ch romic chloride, zinc gluconate, copper 
gluconate, 5'-adenylic acid, 5'-cytidylic aci d, disodium 5'-cytidylate, disodium 5'-
uridylate, cupric sulfate, zinc sulfate,  ferrous gluconate, phylloquinone, manganese 
gluconate, L-ascorbyl stearate, steviol glyc oside, enzymatically modified stevia, 
tartrazine (its Al-lake), sunset yellow FCF (its Al-lake), amaranth (its Al-lake), erythrosine, ponceau 4R, allura red (its Al-lake), fast green. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[  ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other 
damage from pests.    
8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text)   
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    G/SPS/N/KOR/370 
Page 2  
 
  [ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[X] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [ ] Yes   [ ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:    
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:  The Korea 
Food and Drug Administration Advance No tice No. 2010-189, 24 August 2010 (available 
in Korean) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [X] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  2 November 2010 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [X] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
International Trade & Statistics Office 
Korea Food and Drug Administration #194 Tongilro, Eunpyeong-gu 
Seoul, 122-704 Korea 
Tel:  +(82 2) 380 1661 Fax:  +(82 2) 356 2893 E-mail:  wtokfda@korea.kr 
13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
Documents are available from the Korea Food and Drug Administration website at 
http://www.kfda.go.kr .  Also available from:  
International Trade & Statistics Office 
Korea Food and Drug Administration #194 Tongilro, Eunpyeong-gu Seoul, 122-704 Korea Tel:  +(82 2) 380 1661 
Fax:  +(82 2) 356 2893 
E-mail:  wtokfda@korea.kr